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Environmental Success Stories
Solving Major Ecological Problems and Confronting Climate Change
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Frank Dunnivant
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Afterword by:
Kari Norgaard
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English
Published/Copyright:
2017
About this book
Environmental Success Stories delves into the most daunting ecological and environmental challenges humankind has faced and shows how scientists, citizens, and a responsive public sector have dealt with them successfully. Frank M. Dunnivant explains how we might confront the world’s largest and most complex environmental crisis: climate change.
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Frank M. Dunnivant is professor of chemistry at Whitman College. He has worked at two U.S. Department of Energy laboratories. For the past twenty years he has taught an environmental science course to nonscience majors that seeks to inform and inspire action to save the environment.
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H. H. Shugart, author of Foundations of the Earth: Global Ecological Change and the Book of Job:
Dunnivant's book is a tonic for the societal malaise of environmental 'post-truth,' the concept that facts are less important than emotion in the formation of public opinion. Currently, climate change seems positioned to topple into the maelstrom of post-truth, with ample disinformation to speed the drop. Environmental Success Stories effectively argues that our history of environmental problem-solving implies hope for the resolution of global-scale environmental damage. Approachable, optimistic, and science-based, it will appeal to a broad readership.
Dunnivant's book is a tonic for the societal malaise of environmental 'post-truth,' the concept that facts are less important than emotion in the formation of public opinion. Currently, climate change seems positioned to topple into the maelstrom of post-truth, with ample disinformation to speed the drop. Environmental Success Stories effectively argues that our history of environmental problem-solving implies hope for the resolution of global-scale environmental damage. Approachable, optimistic, and science-based, it will appeal to a broad readership.
Walter Dodds, author of Humanity's Footprint: Momentum, Impact, and Our Global Environment:
Walking the narrow line between technological optimist and doom-and-gloom environmentalist by presenting cases where society has addressed major ecological challenges, Dunnivant shows how advances in environmental science and regulation have helped to solve some of humanity's biggest problems. Providing an excellent background to those who are interested in environmental issues and their solutions, Environmental Success Stories shows how science, in concert with social movements, can affect real change.
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Contents
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Author’s Note
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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One: Securing Safe, Inexpensive Drinking Water
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Two: Effective Treatment of Our Wastewaters
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Three: The Removal of Anthropogenic Lead, and Soon Mercury, from Our Environment
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Four: Elimination of Chlorinated Hydrocarbons from Our Environment
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Five: The Safety of Chemicals in Our Food and Water
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Six: Saving Our Atmosphere for Our Children
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Seven: Legislating Industry
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Eight: The Rapid Advancement of Technology
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Nine: Humans′ Greatest Challenge
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Ten: Conclusion and Transition to a Bright Future
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Afterword: Imagination, Responsibility, and Climate Change
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Bibliography
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Index
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eBook published on:
March 21, 2017
eBook ISBN:
9780231542906
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
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256
Illustrations:
23
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23 b&w illustrations
eBook ISBN:
9780231542906
Audience(s) for this book
Professional and scholarly;
